8. Crocodile Shears

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Crocodile shears are just how they sound: two iron-cast sides of a tube, the insides of which feature rows of spikes which are then heated by the torturer and placed on certain appendages. And here's where it gets really ugly: The crocodile shears are clamped onto the victim's penis, and with only a modicum of applied tension, they slowly and painfully separate him from his smoldering manhood. Depending on factors like blood loss and infection, death is hardly a certainty — a point which surely contributes to the torture